Review: Stumbleupon and Twitter
What is Social Networking?
The whole point of social networking sites is to find cool shit out there on the internet. They do this by allowing users to share sites they’ve found with other people in a variety of ways.
To be honest, when I started using both Stumbleupon and Twitter, I was ONLY doing it to get more traffic for my own website. Pretty selfish I know, but when it’s free, hey, anythings worth a try. But I’ve come to really like both of these sites just for what they are, a new way to communicate, and a great way to find amazing web pages that you would have never found otherwise.
Stumbleupon (be my Stumble buddy here!)
Awesomeness: 8/10
Usefullness in Driving traffic to your web site: 6/10
Stumbleupon is like channel surfing the best sites from all over the world. It puts a button bar on your web browser, and when you press the “stumble” button, it will take you to a random website which people have liked in the past. Like the site? Press the thumbs up button and that site will be showed to more people. Don’t like it? Thumbs down it and it will be shown to less people. Don’t give a shit? That’s fine too, you don’t have to rate sites if you don’t want.
Why is this awesome? Because it takes you to a lot of REALLY great sites that there is no possible way you would have found by yourself. It’s kind of like when you get those chain emails with really funny pictures or something, but instead of getting one email every few days, you can sit there and get as many cool pics/movies/sites/games as you want in one sitting. I don’t feel like I’m adequately explaining it, just try it!
You can also make friends on Stumbleupon, then send them links which they can thumbs up. This is a decent way to get some traffic, but if the content isn’t great, it will die down very quickly. You can only get so many thumbs up’s by asking for them, at some point people will just have to like your content. Still pretty easy to get a few hundred visitors to see a post thought, and if it’s really good, then tens of thousands of visitors to your site is totally possible.
Bottom Line:
A really cool site which can entertain you for hours. Also decently good at sending traffic to your site if you take the time to make “friends” on the site.
Twitter (follow me by clicking here!)
Awesomeness: 4/10
Usefullness in Driving traffic to your web site: 2/10
Twitter is like a big message board for a bunch of peoples text messages. You choose to “follow” people, and when you do, everything they “tweet” (ie messages they send) will show up on you list of recent tweets. Messages are limited to 160 characters, the length of a text message, so tweets usually are from a few words to one sentence. I know it doesn’t sound like much fun, but try it, it gets pretty addictive. What makes it cool is that you can update it via text messages from your phone, allowing you to update with such things as “I just walked past 2 parrots sitting on a trashcan,” which would be pretty tough to do sitting at home in front of your computer 
You can also send links in tweets, but I’ve found this to be just a terrible way to promote your site. I have about 100 people following me, and whenever I send them a link, anywhere from 5-10 people click on it.
Bottom Line:
Can be fun, but don’t even bother if you just want to promote your site, as the effort to reward ratio is terrible.
So join up, be my friend on Stumbleupon by going here, and follow me on Twitter by going here!
naah twitter sux , i’ve created an account there but never used it
as for SU i’m addicted to it . you know
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June 12th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Funny thing is, I came all the way over from a link on Twitter.com just to see your page. Come on, give it an extra couple of points!
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June 12th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Response to Ronnieledesma:
If you would have asked me 2 weeks ago to rate Twitter on a 1 - 10 scale, I would have given it a 7 or 8. But for some reason, I’m just feeling annoyable and pissy about Twitter these days, and so I gave it a 4
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It’s a combination of things. For one, there are very few actual conversations going on, just a TON of people yelling “THIS IS WHAT I’M DOING” and then leaving. Second, I really appreciate you checking out my little site, but the truth is Twitter is a bad way to generate traffic. I’m not a link farm on there, but the few times that I do link to anything, less than 10% of the people click the link. That is just crap
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